Maintenance Supervisor 1st shift

Maintenance Supervisor – Job Description

General Summary

The Maintenance Supervisor oversees and coordinates the activities of skilled trade workers responsible for maintaining and repairing equipment, structures, utility systems, buildings, and grounds. This role ensures that all maintenance operations support safe, efficient, and reliable facility performance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Maintenance & Repair Oversight

• Directs teams performing major painting projects, structural repairs (masonry, woodwork, furnishings), and maintenance of building utility systems including electrical wiring, controls, heating, and ventilation.
• Supervises workers installing, servicing, and repairing mechanical equipment.
• Oversees employees responsible for maintaining, repairing, and servicing plant equipment, buildings, and facilities.
• Inspects completed work to ensure compliance with blueprints, specifications, and quality standards.

Planning & Coordination

• Prepares work schedules and assigns tasks to maintenance personnel.
• Establishes and maintains preventive maintenance programs and procedures.
• Requisitions tools, equipment, and supplies as needed to support maintenance operations.
• Works on construction projects involving new buildings/facilities and modifications to existing structures.

Leadership & Communication

• Interprets and enforces company policies and practices.
• Analyzes and resolves work-related problems, assisting employees in troubleshooting issues.
• Administers training programs to ensure proper operation, preventive maintenance, and repair procedures.
• Communicates effectively via email, including reading, responding, and providing follow-up details and next steps.

Facility & Grounds Support

• May supervise grounds maintenance activities such as lawn care, hedge trimming, weed removal, leaf disposal, and snow removal.
• May oversee custodial services as needed.

Knowledge & Skills Requirements

Education

• High school diploma or equivalent (GED) required.

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of directly related experience.
• Experience in a poultry processing environment is required.
• Must be able to work flexible hours and shifts as needed.

The Company is dedicated to ensuring a safe and secure environment for our team members and visitors. To assist in achieving that goal, we conduct drug, alcohol, and background checks for all new team members post-offer and prior to the start of employment. The Immigration Reform and Control Act requires that verification of employment eligibility be documented for all new employees by the end of the third day of work.

About us: Pilgrim’s is a leading global food company with more than 62,000 team members worldwide. The company processes, prepares, packages, and delivers fresh, frozen, and value-added food products for customers in more than 100 countries. Pilgrim’s operates protein processing plants and prepared foods facilities in 14 states, Puerto Rico, Mexico, the U.K, the Republic of Ireland and continental Europe.

Our mission: To be the best in all that we do, completely focused on our business, ensuring the best products and services to our customers, a relationship of trust with our suppliers, profitability for our shareholders and the opportunity of a better future for all of our team members.

Our core values are: Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, and Sincerity

Unsolicited Assistance: JBS and its companies do not accept unsolicited assistance from any recruitment vendors for any of our open jobs. All resumes or candidate profiles submitted by recruitment vendors or headhunters to any employee at JBS and its companies or via the applicant tracking system, in any form without a valid written request and search agreement previously approved by HR, will be solely owned by JBS and its companies. No fees will be paid should the candidate be hired by JBS and its companies because of an unsolicited referral.


EOE, including disability/vets